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You're talking about Plato's cave shadows and Korzybski's territorial map as mental simulations of the physical world? They might be called simulations, but in that sense, human perception is a very loose simulation of reality, only good enough for us to successfully inhabit our place in the universe and sometimes not even that (in the case of asylum inmates). The mind's simulation of reality is not a simulation in a scientifically practical sense.

I'm not willing to call the universe a simulation of itself. I agree with the idea of using the universe to simulate itself, though. Computer simulations are limited by accuracy and time, but if you assume arbitrary amounts of time, and if you don't need perfect accuracy (or laws of physics dictate safe time/space steps for the simulation), you can theoretically simulate arbitrarily complex physics for a brief amount of time. Sorry for stating the obvious with that, but I'd like to contrast the typical "computer simulation" idea with the following: I consider physics experiments to be attempts at using the universe (a small part of it) to simulate other parts of the universe. Computer simulations pale in comparison.

I got lost on this part of your comment: "So my experience is a simulation, but what it is being simulated by is, in fact, my experience. Thus: A simulation of itself."

Entertaining mental maps as simulations, for the sake of argument, I agree with the first part: mental (inner) experience is a simulation of sorts of the outer world. I don't understand the second half of your first sentence. The "what" that is providing your perception (inner experience) is your brain, right? I don't understand how you're making the connection that the brain is your experience. That seems like a lazy use of the word "is", and with a narrower replacement, the equivalence would not hold and you would not be able to claim "the universe simulates itself".
I don't think it's undervalued by enough for that to work, yet. According to this report, the stock is currently priced 9.5% below book value, but in a hostile takeover the acquirer typically needs to pay a significant premium over current share price, in the range of 10-25%, in order to rapidly acquire a bunch of shares.
Physicists say there may be a way to prove that we live in a computer simulation
This is a good question.

There is somethin like $600MM of ST liabilities, though vs $1.2B of cash & equivalents (/securities).

Not sure what that is, but that is (potentially) a big deal.

Although it seems to be on the BS QoQ

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:ZNGA&fstype=ii

LT Debt = $100MM, so not as significant an issue.
Hah. I'm sure that's got nothing to do with what you're most famous for.
The paperwhite uses a capacitive touch screen which does only respond to flesh.

THe previous model, Kindle Touch used an infrared touch sensor that could be triggered by anything touching the screen, but in my experience it was too easy to trigger by accident.
Ask HN: Review my startup www.LetsLunch.com
I am curious to see what everyones opinion is on open graphing your lunch availability and grabbing lunch with other entrepreneur. How many lunches would you goto if chances are of meeting other entrepreneurs?
I am playing with Flask framework (Python) and love reading the source code. I think it is well designed.
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My main problem is the color temperature of the light. It should shift from blue to orange as you make it dimmer. Reading with a blue cast light late at night, with the lights turned down sucks.

One of my main use cases is reading a book before bed. Without f.lux-like functionality that use case is significantly worse.

On the other hand, I can turn a bedlamp on and turn the backlight off, which is OK.
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If you're looking for a book that is fun to read and very approachable "The Little Schemer" would be a good choice. The book teaches some pretty important concepts. Also, it has the benefit of not assuming that the reader knows much at all about either mathematics or computers. However, the book is also not very practical. It will certainly help you think more clearly about programming, but it's more akin to a very long brain teaser than an actual programming tutorial.

Another approach might be a book that focuses on making simple games rather than doing math. The Land of Lisp[1] might be a fun place to start. I haven't read it personally, but it might be worth a look.

[1] http://landoflisp.com/
Where's the bias lighting? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/11/bias-lighting.html
Your "investment" doesn't obligate Mark Pincus into answering a stupid email. You gave them money entirely out of self-interest -- a gamble that you would somehow get more money back -- and they spent it. There are all of the answers you deserve.
OK, I have done a bit of math:

Book value (all assets - all liabilities): $2.46 per share

Book value less expected write off of $90M: $2.34

Book value less all intangibles: $2.01

Current Assets (essentially cash) less all liabilities: 0.78

Current market value: $2.35

So, the market is valuing it at exactly next quarter's expected book value. This means that they still believe there is some value in the intangibles (I don't) or the business (I don't).

For giggles, here are the some numbers for Research in Motion.

BV: $18.15 per share

BV less intangibles: 11.81

Current assets less all liabilities: 6.22

Market value: 7.76
Talk to your boss (manager, CTO, etc...) first! You have nothing to lose by doing this. Be completely honest with them about your feelings, but phrase things in positive ways. Don't say you "already stopped learning new things", but tell them you "have a lot more to offer and ready for more challenges".

Do you know nothing cool is coming down the pipeline for the foreseeable future? Show initiative and tell them all of the things that you genuinely love about the company and how you like it there. Don't put them on the defensive or focus on the negatives. During that conversation discuss the current positives and the future positives with you as an engaged employee with more responsibility.

You have absolutely nothing to lose if you are on the fence with your decision. If they react poorly you know what you need to do. If they react positively you may have a long-term happy future there.
> It's a good headline, buut won't the market correct this naturally to account for the fact it's worth "less" than it's assets or is Zynga going to just keep dropping?

Not unless equities investors decide to act rationally, and there's little evidence for that. Stocks falling below the true value of company assets is such a common occurrence that cagier, usually bigger, players will locate and "greenmail" such a company into buying their own stock with company assets to correct the difference between market valuation and basic value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenmail

So I guess the answer to your question is "yes" but exactly how this happens is sometimes rather complicated.

Obviously if a company can be located whose physical plant and inventory value is higher than its stock valuation, such a company is vulnerable to a takeover by anyone able to detect this peculiar state of affairs and act on it.
Does this mean they're undervalued and it's a good time to buy Zynga?
Love to have you for this role, my email is Syed@LetsLunch.com
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WRT Smalltalk's image, code management is only one of its marquee features, so I think Smalltalkers would object to calling image vs files a false dichotomy.

Yeah, I agree. That was inaccurate on my part. What I said really only applies to the code management side.
Really nice article Hari.
Quick thoughts on work/life balance
We let you pre-fill certain information (for your user's convenience): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/reference#get-authorize-requ...
Oyster Raises $3M To Create An Unlimited Subscription Service For Books
we got into a big discussion on super computers (the definition), the meaning of what a core is and a whole bunch of other issues... but the low power requirements of this are being completely ignored... as for applications... well portable and/or remote devices/sensors that need parallel computing capabilities and where high energy usage is prohibitive are possible applications. But the greatest asset of this is to spark the next gen of app developers and programmers to fully embrace parallel programming and truly make software scalable...
NASA spotted that bright spot after deploying the scooping robotic arm for the first time, after its first scooping.[1]

You can see the scoop full of sand very clearly on the images.

This kind of maneuver (sampling martian stuff) is certainly crucial for Curiosity's mission. You would guess that they were watching this first very carefully, with a lot of engineers, scientists and attention. All of this makes me think that they spotted this bright thing with bare eyes.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16225.ht...
Is it really heartbreaking that some Silicon Valley developers, one of the highest paid professions in one of the highest paid areas of the world, only made a decent salary instead of a fantastic total compensation package?

It's unfortunate, sure. And quite a few parts of the Zynga story are downright distasteful, especially the options clawback last year.

But let's not get hyperbolic - they played the startup lottery hoping to get rich, and lost.
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the problem with packs... there is so much stuff to ingest, most of the stuff goes unused.

learn to use default vim first. then start adding aliases and macros as need to speed up things.

most of the plugins mentioned are useless to me. default vim is super powerful as it is.

why try to fix problems that aren't there? the beauty of vim is the unique way each user approaches it. every time i sit next to a vimmer i'm like 'how the hell did you do that!" same thing that happens when vimmers watch me code. ive been using vim for 6+ years now, i still haven't even got close to using 10% of it, and i daily use around 50 or so key commands.
If you are interested in reading more, we've also posted some thoughts on our blog:

http://blog.readoyster.com/post/33266414476/a-preface
We're currently thinking about this, but no concrete plans or timeline yet -- sorry!

We've tried to make it as seamless as possible for your users to create an account; it's baked right into the authentication flow instead of having them separately register. Hopefully that helps, would love to hear your thoughts here (amber@stripe.com).

https://stripe.com/docs/connect#payments-flow
I find it interesting that Joshua Topolsky (the Verge) also reviewed this device[1], but was much more impressed than John Gruber. I don't think this results from a preference difference, but rather a perspective difference:

Where Topolsky reviewed the Kindle Paperwhite as an electronic device, comparing it to other tablet and e-reader devices, Gruber weighed the Kindle as a book, comparing its characteristics to the print medium.

Considered together, I find the two reviews complementary. The Kindle Paperwhite beats other electronic reading media, but is still lacks some of the characteristics of print. It's certainly a step in that direction, though.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/30/3433110/amazon-kindle-pape...
Sigh. Thank you mods for removing the only reason this page is currently relevant.

Original title was "The rocket that would have gotten us to Mars in 1978". Which is completely truthful, uneditorialized and why folks might be interested in this bit of dead-end technology.
Thanks a lot for this story. Elop decisions, especially considering the actuals products and this story, might have been the best at the time. As people say, "to fight the next battle, you must first survive"

I remember feeling uneasy when the Qt move was announced, but this story gives all the background info, and all the pieces fit it.

Qt might have seemed like a good idea given the proximity of trolltech and the possibility of joining Symbian and Meego, but it was just a too much - even for Nokia. They should have killed either one of the projects so that the other could have survived - preferably Symbian since it might have looked like another PalmOS-style agony.

Anyway, Nokia seems to be back on track. If the windows phone deal goes sour and Jolla proves that Qt was a good idea, Nokia can still license it - or try resurrecting something else like webos.

I sure don't see them going the Android route, where the phones have become a commodity.

Too bad they didn't keep using GTK. The N900 was not market ready, but with another couple of iterations it could have been. Trying to add in Qt just sealed their coffin.

(BTW I deeply love my N900, which I still use.)
Data should not be organised based around retrieval or insert / update patterns but organised according to the model that best captures the essence of what the data is. That may sound fluffy, but most of the time data captured is captured following something real happening that caused data to be generated. Your data model needs to make sense in the context of the thing that happened in the real world, not in the context of what is inserted or how it is read.

The issue being that youre methods of collection and retrieval will change over time and your data model needs to support that and still make sense for existing data.
Yep. And maybe a few hundred devs will struggle to pay their mortgage.

Yes, Zynga has many issues. But before we get all cold-hearted and rejoice at the wonderful invisible hand that will correct all, can we for a moment remember that it's going to affect mostly the people in the trenches? Who often had little to no say in the outcome?
Brilliant Report!!
No one has solved the micropayments problem (yet). Given the way the world works at present, Stripe would lose money on every micropayment.
The Expletive project: trolling while ending digital piracy. Yes, really.
It did, and googling for "donate to ubuntu" brought it up as the first hit. Still does, in fact, for now; the page no longer exists.
Well, it's pretty much a textbook case for insurance: a very small risk spread across a large number of rentals where the worst case is bad. AirBnB has the advantage that they could tailor the premium based on the exact parameters of the rental.
Well, you could support both, apportioned however seems reasonable to you ... e.g. "Ok, Debian provide the bulk of the core system, so $50 to Debian, and Ubuntu does some good work tweaking the UI, adding shiny, and holding users' hands, so $5 to them."
I don't think this works with Zynga since Pincus's shares have so much extra voting power.
this one seems exhaustive for sure #36million profiles
Think mobile apps are big business? Bigcos will spend 10x more to support them
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Nginx port of mod_pagespeed
I think it would be a much better idea to have people give in the beginning, but instead of asking them where the money should go, tell them that their name will be included in the next release as a contributor on their site and in an "About Ubuntu" dialog in the desktop version and /etc/contributors on the server version where it lists the various levels of contributors and their names. This would encourage more businesses to give.
I'm of the opposite opinion. Companies that already have financial backing, have already put significant time and effort into a project, and already have experience running their business are much more likely to follow through on their campaign than some kid who build a new chair in his bedroom and thinks he can deliver it a month after his $100k campaign is finished.
I'd buy the designs for $50+ because I will most definitely want to build it myself.
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ATI drivers? The open source ATI drivers have progressed wonderfully recently. I never even flirt with the idea of tainting my desktops or laptops with proprietary drivers. The situation is different with nvidia but I am still happy with the machine I have with an old nvidia card I purchased for mining btc.

What problems do people have with the free ATI drivers?
According to the website of Hube Korea, the hydrofluoric acid was "LCD-grade", presumably used for LCD manufacturing.

http://www.hube.co.kr/ (Flash website)

http://imgur.com/lDeRS (screen capture)

Both Samsung and LG Display have manufacturing plants here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumi,_South_Korea

It happened when a guy connecting a hose to tanker slipped.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/10/113_1219...
While prefetch is an important factor, it is not the case here since the data array is accessed sequentially in both the sorted or unsorted scenarios. Also the initial number generation loop already primes the data in the memory for either scenario.
All of your answers and more are in the article...
Why should we have to make it 100% accurate ?

I mean, just like with videogames emulators, it can be good to simplify some things. That's how most supernes emulators were made until very recently IIRC.

I'm not a physicist, but for exemple if the subatomic particles can't be accurately modeled, couldn't they just be replaced by atomic particles and special case handling?
Ask HN: Adobe AIR
What's the opinion on Adobe AIR? The popularity among Hackers?
It seems good to develop front-ends and nicely portable applications, but, I am a C++/Java programmer, it's a first for AIR, so: if you do use it, what for? Is it the basis/platform for one of your applications, or is it a front-end?

Just wondering, and thanks.
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The actual numbers here are irrelevant; gp was providing a hypothetical in which it makes sense to sell a stock.

If exaggerated numbers make the hypothetical concept easier to grasp I don't think it detracts from the example to use them.
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The idea of getting into a mortgage based on non-vested or non-lockup-expired stock options reminds me of Japanese professionals getting into mortgages based on their salary + overtime pay (overtime was effectively eliminated during and after the financial crisis, which left these people unable to meet their monthly mortgage payments).
I've had a Linode since about '06, and I've been very happy with them.

~$ uptime
23:47:12 up 750 days
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Sometimes this is a good opportunity to invest BUT in this case I would steer clear. I think their business model is questionable which brings into question their profitability. If they continue losing money, they could burn through their book value in no time.
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Well, there was this hack by MapBox

http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica

No high-res satellite imagery though.

Just don't forget to visit the McMurdo Dry Valleys

https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&spn=0....
If you're going to buy one stock it doesn't really matter how much another stock will increase in the next year ;)

(I'm prety sure that Appell Pete Corp would be psyched if enough people make this mistake).
I'd say: "expose you to a dynamically exciting work environment".
The direction of the dynamics is another story, right.
See also: how my coworker bricked his iPhone.
Debian stable has far less disruption than Ubuntu LTS in my experience. There are very frequent updates to LTS releases. Often big ones too.

That being said, Debian stable can sometimes feel a little... stale. Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
I love the way he approaches the device. His argument that Amazon should work their asses off making this as perfect as possible for reading books is very compelling. Great buttons - yes. Beautiful, deliberately selected typography - yes. I hope someone at Amazon is thinking the same way - I think I'll wait to buy a Kindle when Gruber says "this is what it should be."
I have been waiting to see this company die and I hope the end is near. They may try and save it with virtual currency gambling as their next con on the human brain but it is inevitable.
I'm the biggest advocate for plowing through every day like a tank but even I would be incredibly handicapped without a proper framework. My system is designed to keep all tasks and tactics out of my head so I can focus on strategy, vision, and execution. Folks who think they don't need a system are lucky, foolish, not all that ambitious, or have others worrying about the big picture of their lives/ companies/ industries.
I'd rather donate to individual projects than the guys packaging stuff and making unity.

Oh wait, that's what I do.
Because no one looking for market index returns would hold Zynga in anything other than an index fund. If you hold zynga you're looking for a homerun, or a trader.

Thus I used numbers that would appeal to the type that might hold Zynga stock. The type that had a risk profile involving losing 90% of the stock's value in 6 months.
This is what happens when we try to simplify the language. It should be paedophile not pedophile and thus #opPaedoChat :)
devs? struggle? in the valley, for the gods sake? In what exact moment they're going to struggle with their mortgages, in these precise six minutes twenty four seconds that would pass between they get their notices from HR and they land the next job in the company next door?
Actually, you can't login any of the Stack Exchange websites with a username and password. The only options are OpenID and an email-based StackExchange login.

And the username can be changed any time, so anyone can change their username (which is effectively a "display name") to 'rm -rf' at any time if they want to, IIRC.
I realize it's not part of the default distribution, but installing xubuntu-desktop is a nearly-painless way to ditch Unity for XFCE. I've been very happy with it.
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Facebook really embarrass me this time
My friend send me a online slid "How to date Japanese girl" from slide share. it auto update my status on FB. today all my friends come and ask me what happened to me.. WTF FB
www.slideshare.net/31o5/how-to-date-a-japanese-girl-presentation
Awesome!! Care to share any technical details on how this was done for newbies like me? Thanks!
Clearly it's a matter of opinion. But I don't think your explanation makes any sense -- surely the presence or absence of a clear edge to the outlines is part of the "character" of the font too, no? The font designers didn't intend for it to be blurry...
Winningest quote ever from DotCom 1.0: "It has a ballistic trajectory".
Aren't they something like 15% of FB's revenue, and FB is more like 85% of theirs? Seems like FB would just keep on screwing with their visibility on the site to drag their numbers down to the muck, then buy Zynga with change they find between their couch cushions.
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How to visit companies and start-ups in the bay area?
Hi!

I am in the bay area hosted by Oracle, as the winner of the Thinkquest Digital media competition. I have two more days left here and I would really like to visit the big companies in the area(the offices, not just the campus) and other smaller start-ups. I am studying engineering at the University of Manchester so I am really interested in this field.

I was wondering if anyone can help me get a visitor's pass or give me some directions on where to go/what to do. If you want more information about me ask for my e-mail in the comments.

Thanks,
Dimitris
I know nothing about the regulation hurdles of payment processing, but I would assume that there is a massive difference between laws regulating how to make payments from a foreign country and how to accept payments as a company in a foreign country.